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If you’ve never heard of the Khan Academy in Mountain View, California you may want to watch the above video. Salman Khan is a 36 year old entrepreneur who holds multiple degrees from MIT and Harvard. The mission of his non profit company is to develop a “free world class education for anyone anywhere” through the use of short educational videos combined with interactive quizzes and tools for teachers to chart student progress.

According to a report from the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, global spending on education is $3.9 trillion, or 5.6% of planetary GDP. America spends the most–about $1.3 trillion a year–yet the U.S. ranks 25th out of the 34 OECD countries in mathematics, 17th in science and 14th in reading.

The economic prosperity in the United States masks an underlying problem of incompetency in basic math and science. Approximately one fifth of American 15-year-olds do not have basic competence in science; 23% can’t use math in daily life. The Khan Academy is seeking to reverse this problem through the development and distribution of innovative educational videos. In fact, Khan Academy videos have been viewed more than 200 million times.

We applaud the efforts of the Khan Academy and look forward to reporting in the future on improvements in U.S. student rankings against other OEDC countries. Learning on the Khan Academy’s website is 100% free so we would encourage everyone reading this blog article to visit the site and register. The site provides educational lessons for the following subjects: